Peter S
Vice President Of Privacy Engineering Senior Privacy Researcher at Brave Software
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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SeniorPeter S is Vice President of Privacy Engineering and Senior Privacy Researcher at Brave, leading the team that designs product privacy features and the company's long-term privacy strategy. With eight years of focused experience at Brave and a prior decade as a freelance developer, he blends hands-on engineering, academic-grade research, and product leadership to ship privacy protections at scale. He has published in top security and privacy venues (CCS, IEEE S&P, USENIX, IMC, WWW, CHI) and co-authored influential W3C and IETF proposals such as Global Privacy Control and STAR. Peter co-chairs the W3C PING privacy review group, collaborates with standards bodies and academic partners, and translates research into public-facing product updates and standards positions. Based in Chicago, he pairs practical product delivery with protocol-level thinking—often turning standards work into features that let users assert legal privacy rights.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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adblock10
uic9
webextension8
browser-extension8
macos6
brave-browser6
iphone6
windows6
browser6
linux6
nsdata6
muon6
javascript6
ipad6
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bitslab/uic-cs-thesis-template
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
A template for writing a CS PhD thesis at UIC
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year 1 month
uic
w3cping/privacy-mode
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Draft of a possible "privacy mode" spec / note.
Contributions:3 commits in 8 days
specprivacy
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